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Plague Inc.
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Can you Infect the World?

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Can you infect the world? Plague Inc. is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation.

Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero'. Now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Brilliantly executed with innovative gameplay and built from the ground up for iPhone & iPad, Plague Inc. evolves the strategy genre and pushes mobile gaming (and you) to new levels. It’s You vs. the world - only the strongest can survive!

◈◈◈ #1 top game globally with well over a billion games played ◈◈◈

Plague Inc. is a global hit with almost a million 5 star ratings and features in newspapers such as The Economist, New York Post, Boston Herald, The Guardian and London Metro!

The developer of Plague Inc. was invited to speak at the CDC in Atlanta about the disease models inside the game!

▶ “The game creates a compelling world that engages the public on serious public health topics” – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention▶ “Best Tablet Game” - New York Daily News ▶ “Plague Inc. will snag your attention in all the right ways and keep it there” - Touch Arcade ▶ “No denying Plague Inc.'s high-level of quality” - Modojo ▶ “Plague Inc. should not be as much fun as it is” – London Metro ▶ “Will leave you hoping to destroy the world, all in the name of a bit of fun” – Pocket Lint ▶ “Plague Inc.'s gameplay is infectious” - Slide to Play ▶ Winner – “Overall Game of the Year” – Pocket Gamer▶ “Killing billions has never been so fun” – IGN

- Play thousands of new Custom Scenarios created by mobile players just like you- Full support for the stand-alone Plague Inc: Scenario Creator- New popular Custom Scenarios added. Turn your victims to stone, evolve into a bone-eating virus and more - Test newly created Scenarios in Plague Inc. with the push of a button- Custom Scenario browser enhanced with powerful PlagueBot AI

The Plague Inc: Scenario Creator is a stand-alone and powerful content creation tool available now. It’s easy to use and lets you bring your deadliest ideas to life as you develop/mod your own Custom Scenarios for Plague Inc. before sharing them with the world.

P.S. Want to infect the world in real life with your friends? Good news - Plague Inc: The Board Game is now available - see in game for details.

1.14.1

DANGER - Custom Scenarios in Plague Inc. are spreading exponentially with the release of the Plague Inc: Scenario Creator for mobile!

- Play thousands of new Custom Scenarios created by mobile players just like you- Full support for the stand-alone Plague Inc: Scenario Creator- New popular Custom Scenarios added. Turn your victims to stone, evolve into a bone-eating virus and more - Test newly created Scenarios in Plague Inc. with the push of a button- Custom Scenario browser enhanced with powerful PlagueBot AI

The Plague Inc: Scenario Creator is a stand-alone and powerful content creation tool available now. It’s easy to use and lets you bring your deadliest ideas to life as you develop/mod your own Custom Scenarios for Plague Inc. before sharing them with the world.

P.S. Want to infect the world in real life with your friends? Good news - Plague Inc: The Board Game is now available - see in game for details.

1.14.0

DANGER - Custom Scenarios in Plague Inc. are spreading exponentially with the release of the Plague Inc: Scenario Creator for mobile!

- Play thousands of new Custom Scenarios created by mobile players just like you- Full support for the stand-alone Plague Inc: Scenario Creator- New popular Custom Scenarios added. Turn your victims to stone, evolve into a bone-eating virus and more - Test newly created Scenarios in Plague Inc. with the push of a button- Custom Scenario browser enhanced with powerful PlagueBot AI

The Plague Inc: Scenario Creator is a stand-alone and powerful content creation tool available now. It’s easy to use and lets you bring your deadliest ideas to life as you develop/mod your own Custom Scenarios for Plague Inc. before sharing them with the world.

P.S. Want to infect the world in real life with your friends? Good news - Plague Inc: The Board Game is now available - see in game for details.

1.13.3

Jan 25, 2017

Plague Inc Mutation 13 Discovered - new Shadow Plague expansion pack!

1. Shadow Plague added- This sentient, mutagenic pathogen triggers a powerful thirst for blood in its chosen host. Can humanity defend itself against a powerful vampire attacking from the shadows?- Consume humanity - Feed carefully to grow in power and transform into a monstrous bat to strategically set up lairs and shadow portals.- Emerge from the Shadows - Create slaves to worship your vampire and use Blood Rage to defeat the Templar who hunt your vampire as well as the WHO who seek to eradicate your pathogen- Cover the world in darkness - Master unique gameplay mechanics and strategies to help your vampire rule the world!2. BREXIT events now added into the simulation. Help influence whether the UK has a soft, hard or 'brutal' Brexit - or even keep Britain in the EU after all!3. Performance improvements4. Various minor features as well as game balance tweaks / AI improvements / bug fix

p.s. You can now pre-order Plague Inc: The Board Game to infect your tabletop...

1.13.2

Nov 9, 2016

Plague Inc Mutation 13 Discovered - new Shadow Plague expansion pack!

1. Shadow Plague added- This sentient, mutagenic pathogen triggers a powerful thirst for blood in its chosen host. Can humanity defend itself against a powerful vampire attacking from the shadows?- Consume humanity - Feed carefully to grow in power and transform into a monstrous bat to strategically set up lairs and shadow portals.- Emerge from the Shadows - Create slaves to worship your vampire and use Blood Rage to defeat the Templar who hunt your vampire as well as the WHO who seek to eradicate your pathogen- Cover the world in darkness - Master unique gameplay mechanics and strategies to help your vampire rule the world!2. BREXIT events now added into the simulation. Help influence whether the UK has a soft, hard or 'brutal' Brexit - or even keep Britain in the EU after all!3. Performance improvements4. Various minor features as well as game balance tweaks / AI improvements / bug fix

p.s. You can now pre-order Plague Inc: The Board Game to infect your tabletop...

1.13.1

Oct 26, 2016

Plague Inc Mutation 13 Discovered - new Shadow Plague expansion pack!

1. Shadow Plague added- This sentient, mutagenic pathogen triggers a powerful thirst for blood in its chosen host. Can humanity defend itself against a powerful vampire attacking from the shadows?- Consume humanity - Feed carefully to grow in power and transform into a monstrous bat to strategically set up lairs and shadow portals.- Emerge from the Shadows - Create slaves to worship your vampire and use Blood Rage to defeat the Templar who hunt your vampire as well as the WHO who seek to eradicate your pathogen- Cover the world in darkness - Master unique gameplay mechanics and strategies to help your vampire rule the world!2. BREXIT events now added into the simulation. Help influence whether the UK has a soft, hard or 'brutal' Brexit - or even keep Britain in the EU after all!3. Performance improvements4. Various minor features as well as game balance tweaks / AI improvements / bug fix

◈◈◈I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

p.s. You can now pre-order Plague Inc: The Board Game to infect your tabletop...

1.13.0

Oct 25, 2016

Plague Inc Mutation 13 Discovered - new Shadow Plague expansion pack!

1. Shadow Plague added- This sentient, mutagenic pathogen triggers a powerful thirst for blood in its chosen host. Can humanity defend itself against a powerful vampire attacking from the shadows?- Consume humanity - Feed carefully to grow in power and transform into a monstrous bat to strategically set up lairs and shadow portals.- Emerge from the Shadows - Create slaves to worship your vampire and use Blood Rage to defeat the Templar who hunt your vampire as well as the WHO who seek to eradicate your pathogen- Cover the world in darkness - Master unique gameplay mechanics and strategies to help your vampire rule the world!2. BREXIT events now added into the simulation. Help influence whether the UK has a soft, hard or 'brutal' Brexit - or even keep Britain in the EU after all!3. Performance improvements4. Various minor features as well as game balance tweaks / AI improvements / bug fix

◈◈◈I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

p.s. You can now pre-order Plague Inc: The Board Game to infect your tabletop...

1.12.5

1. Custom Scenarios - loads of new diseases and worlds made by Plague Inc. fans! Rebuild society after a devastating plague, infect all of humanity with Rabies, or even take over the world with Fridges!2. Random Name Generator - Tens of thousands of witty, dramatic, weird and wonderful names for your precious disease. Each one hand-crafted for you by our custom built PlagueBot!3. Performance improvements for all devices4. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

P.S. we are currently working on the next new disease type (coming very soon)!

1.12.4

1. Custom Scenarios - loads of new diseases and worlds made by Plague Inc. fans! Rebuild society after a devastating plague, infect all of humanity with Rabies, or even take over the world with Fridges!2. Random Name Generator - Tens of thousands of witty, dramatic, weird and wonderful names for your precious disease. Each one hand-crafted for you by our custom built PlagueBot!3. Performance improvements for all devices4. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

P.S. we are currently working on the next new disease type (coming very soon)!

Hotfix:1.12.2: Fixed a few rare issues with custom scenarios which could cause crashes or odd behaviourHotfix 1.12.3: Fixed isolated crashes on certain custom scenarios and iOS 6.Minor Update 1.12.4: Updated location of Olympics from London to Rio.

1.12.3

1. Custom Scenarios - loads of new diseases and worlds made by Plague Inc. fans! Rebuild society after a devastating plague, infect all of humanity with Rabies, or even take over the world with Fridges!2. Random Name Generator - Tens of thousands of witty, dramatic, weird and wonderful names for your precious disease. Each one hand-crafted for you by our custom built PlagueBot!3. Longer disease names - as requested by millions of players, your disease name can now be 33% longer!4. Performance improvements for all devices5. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

1.12.2

1. Custom Scenarios - loads of new diseases and worlds made by Plague Inc. fans! Rebuild society after a devastating plague, infect all of humanity with Rabies, or even take over the world with Fridges!2. Random Name Generator - Tens of thousands of witty, dramatic, weird and wonderful names for your precious disease. Each one hand-crafted for you by our custom built PlagueBot!3. Longer disease names - as requested by millions of players, your disease name can now be 33% longer!4. Performance improvements for all devices5. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

Hotfix:1.12.2. Fixed a few rare issues with custom scenarios which could cause crashes or odd behaviour

P.S. we are currently working on the next new disease type (coming very soon)!

1.12.0

1. Custom Scenarios - loads of new diseases and worlds made by Plague Inc. fans! Rebuild society after a devastating plague, infect all of humanity with Rabies, or even take over the world with Fridges!2. Random Name Generator - Tens of thousands of witty, dramatic, weird and wonderful names for your precious disease. Each one hand-crafted for you by our custom built PlagueBot!3. Longer disease names - as requested by millions of players, your disease name can now be 33% longer!4. Performance improvements for all devices5. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

P.S. we are currently working on the next new disease type (coming very soon)!

1.11.2

Jan 12, 2016

Plague Inc. Mutation 11 Discovered - The Plague School Update

1. Plague School - New to the game or want to learn strategies for some of the more exotic disease types? The brand new tutorial has your back. Enrol in the Infectious Disease School to learn the genetic strategies needed to infect the world!2. Double Strain Cheat - How will the world handle two Patient Zeroes? Start your plague off in two countries at once with this brand new cheat3. Improved some government AI response routines at higher difficulty levels4. Enhanced Particle Graphics - Bubbles now explode even more satisfyingly when you pop them!5. Extra News Headlines - Including headlines submitted by Plague Inc. players!6. Performance improvements for all devices7. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

P.S. also includes a little teaser for the next new disease type (coming soon)!

1.11.2 - Fixes to Trojan Plane flight paths

◈◈◈I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

1.11.0

Dec 12, 2015

Plague Inc. Mutation 11 Discovered - The Plague School Update

1. Plague School - New to the game or want to learn strategies for some of the more exotic disease types? The brand new tutorial has your back. Enrol in the Infectious Disease School to learn the genetic strategies needed to infect the world!2. Double Strain Cheat - How will the world handle two Patient Zeroes? Start your plague off in two countries at once with this brand new cheat3. Improved some government AI response routines at higher difficulty levels4. Enhanced Particle Graphics - Bubbles now explode even more satisfyingly when you pop them!5. Extra News Headlines - Including headlines submitted by Plague Inc. players!6. Performance improvements for all devices7. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

P.S. also includes a little teaser for the next new disease type (coming soon)!

◈◈◈I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

1.10.3

May 14, 2015

Plague Inc. Mutation 10 Discovered - Santa's Little Helper

1. Special Christmas Scenario - Infect the World with Happiness! Boring governments have banned holidays, laughter and celebrations. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness.2. Teleportation scenario - Highly advanced technology has created the opportunity to travel through a portal and teleport to other countries. Where will they go?3. New Progress Screen - Just how good at Plague Inc. are you? See your completion % and complete challenges to become a Plague Inc. master!4. Major gameplay update to core disease types following player feedback, particularly Parasite, Prion and the Neurax Worm, as well as upgraded human AI, making life more difficult for any potential world-ending pathogen5. Improved starting country selection, updated the world population and added lots of new Simian Flu achievements6. Performance improvements for all devices7. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

1.10.2

May 5, 2015

Plague Inc. Mutation 10 Discovered - Santa's Little Helper

1. Special Christmas Scenario - Infect the World with Happiness! Boring governments have banned holidays, laughter and celebrations. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness.2. Teleportation scenario - Highly advanced technology has created the opportunity to travel through a portal and teleport to other countries. Where will they go?3. New Progress Screen - Just how good at Plague Inc. are you? See your completion % and complete challenges to become a Plague Inc. master!4. Major gameplay update to core disease types following player feedback, particularly Parasite, Prion and the Neurax Worm, as well as upgraded human AI, making life more difficult for any potential world-ending pathogen5. Improved starting country selection, updated the world population and added lots of new Simian Flu achievements6. Performance improvements for all devices7. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

1.10.1 Fix for Russian translation bug1.10.2 Improved compatibility

◈◈◈I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

1.10.1

Dec 17, 2014

Plague Inc. Mutation 10 Discovered - Santa's Little Helper

1. Special Christmas Scenario - Infect the World with Happiness! Boring governments have banned holidays, laughter and celebrations. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness.2. Teleportation scenario - Highly advanced technology has created the opportunity to travel through a portal and teleport to other countries. Where will they go?3. New Progress Screen - Just how good at Plague Inc. are you? See your completion % and complete challenges to become a Plague Inc. master!4. Major gameplay update to core disease types following player feedback, particularly Parasite, Prion and the Neurax Worm, as well as upgraded human AI, making life more difficult for any potential world-ending pathogen5. Improved starting country selection, updated the world population and added lots of new Simian Flu achievements6. Performance improvements for all devices7. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

1.10.1 Fix for Russian translation bug

◈◈◈I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

1.10

Dec 16, 2014

Plague Inc. Mutation 10 Discovered - Santa's Little Helper

1. Special Christmas Scenario - Infect the World with Happiness! Boring governments have banned holidays, laughter and celebrations. Luckily, the Neurax Worm has teamed up with Santa and is determined to infect the whole world with joy and happiness.2. Teleportation scenario - Highly advanced technology has created the opportunity to travel through a portal and teleport to other countries. Where will they go?3. New Progress Screen - Just how good at Plague Inc. are you? See your completion % and complete challenges to become a Plague Inc. master!4. Major gameplay update to core disease types following player feedback, particularly Parasite, Prion and the Neurax Worm, as well as upgraded human AI, making life more difficult for any potential world-ending pathogen5. Improved starting country selection, updated the world population and added lots of new Simian Flu achievements6. Performance improvements for all devices7. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

◈◈◈I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

1.9.1

Jul 14, 2014

Plague Inc. Mutation 9 Discovered – The Simian Flu Expansion Pack from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

1. Special Simian Flu expansion pack added from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, in partnership with 20th Century Fox. Can humanity handle a global pandemic while dealing with a growing nation of genetically evolved, intelligent apes?

1.9

Jul 10, 2014

Plague Inc. Mutation 9 Discovered – The Simian Flu Expansion Pack from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

1. Special Simian Flu expansion pack added from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, in partnership with 20th Century Fox. Can humanity handle a global pandemic while dealing with a growing nation of genetically evolved, intelligent apes?- Control communities of intelligent apes – evolve your disease in parallel to allow ape-to-ape transmission, improve their cognitive abilities, and create colonies to protect apes- Decide when your apes should rampage against research labs, move apes to avoid detection from military drones and use ape migration to prevent scientists from conducting aggressive ape experiments.- Master new gameplay mechanics and strategies to help apes become the dominant species on the planet!- New genes, evolutions, graphics, music, government actions, events, achievements and more!

1.8.7

- Experience Plague Inc.’s toughest challenge yet and try to infect a world with random medical checks, genetic drift and research tech improvements. Adapt or die…

2. Mega new Cheat Modes – 3 new cheat modes are added which will all give you very different Plague Inc. experiences.

- Shuffle Strain: All evolutions are mixed up

- Turbo Strain: Starting country is 100% infected

- Lucky Dip Strain: Start with 5 random evolutions

3. Use cheats on any plague type (and even combine different cheat modes!)

4. New Scenarios – 4 new scenarios give players brand new challenges from infecting the world with a 30,000 year old virus through to surviving in a world with artificial organs

5. New events and achievements

6. Performance improvements for all devices

7. Minor game balance / AI improvements / bug fix

1.8.1 - Fix for occasional crash when purchasing scenarios

1.8.5 - Chinese (simplified and traditional) language added!

1.8.6 - Fixed crashing bug - sorry!

1.8.7 - Tweaks to Chinese translations

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I have future updates planned – let me know what you want!

Jan 10, 2018

Version 1.15.3

Plague Inc. Mutation 15 Discovered - The Mad Cow Disease Update

WARNING - Meat, dairy, fruit or vegetable - no food is safe as a new variant of Mad Cow Disease breaks out in the latest Plague Inc. update!

Three new official scenarios have landed and each one offers exciting new challenges for Plague Inc. players:

Mad Cow DiseaseEvolve an entirely new variant of the infamous prion and infiltrate the world’s food supply! Is now the time to go vegetarian?

Where Is Everyone?Almost everybody in the world has mysteriously vanished and nobody knows why. How will your outbreak spread when there are so few people left to infect?

Flight ClubDoes the idea of Greenland getting a major airport excite you? If so this is the scenario for you!

Also includedWe’ve implemented a few new achievements, a Featured Scenarios menu and some minor bug fixes.

***Hotfix 1.15.2 - Adjustments to difficulty and events in new scenariosHotfix 1.15.3 - Fixed issue where Government Actions were not firing correctly in Mad Cow Disease Scenario

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5

19.5K Ratings

19.5K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

The infection has begun and it’s up to you to strategically spread and evolve a deadly plague to bring about the end of the human race. Saving the world and being a hero is honourable, but decimating the world with a deadly infection is a whole lot of fun — even though it shouldn’t be.

Editors’ Choice

The infection has begun and it’s up to you to strategically spread and evolve a deadly plague to bring about the end of the human race. Saving the world and being a hero is honourable, but decimating the world with a deadly infection is a whole lot of fun — even though it shouldn’t be.

Needs a complete unlock purchase

Mar 15, 2018

Bones3010

This is a great and imaginative game. Difficult but not so much as to take away the fun. I actually bought it near when it was first released and the updates are regular and impressive, but the thing that bothers me about any game with in-app purchases is that it there are so many individual in app unlocks, etc. that it's completely unreasonable to expect a customer to purchase them all and on top of the original app purchase. Yes, you can unlock them through gameplay but it is very difficult and/or time consuming to do so. I would consider a full 5-star review if there was a single in app purchase that unlocks all additional content for a single REASONABLE price, or better yet, eliminate in apps altogether and just charge up front when you buy the game and offer the player the ability to cheat and unlock expansions at will. I understand that the devs need to eat and should be paid for their content, but as a mobile app all the added content available is too unreasonably priced when you can buy an HD console game for about the same price once you've purchased everything currently available at the time of this review.

In short, great game, great developers, but limited in replay value unless you spend even more money for all of the expansions and unlocks. Please offer a better option and I'll absolutely give this 5-stars.

Needs a complete unlock purchase

Mar 15, 2018

Bones3010

This is a great and imaginative game. Difficult but not so much as to take away the fun. I actually bought it near when it was first released and the updates are regular and impressive, but the thing that bothers me about any game with in-app purchases is that it there are so many individual in app unlocks, etc. that it's completely unreasonable to expect a customer to purchase them all and on top of the original app purchase. Yes, you can unlock them through gameplay but it is very difficult and/or time consuming to do so. I would consider a full 5-star review if there was a single in app purchase that unlocks all additional content for a single REASONABLE price, or better yet, eliminate in apps altogether and just charge up front when you buy the game and offer the player the ability to cheat and unlock expansions at will. I understand that the devs need to eat and should be paid for their content, but as a mobile app all the added content available is too unreasonably priced when you can buy an HD console game for about the same price once you've purchased everything currently available at the time of this review.

In short, great game, great developers, but limited in replay value unless you spend even more money for all of the expansions and unlocks. Please offer a better option and I'll absolutely give this 5-stars.

Oaks tree

Nov 2, 2017

Oaks tree

Think about it, what would happen in real life? I’m pretty sure everyone here in the real world isn’t perfect. But not in plague. Apparently every type of resource possible grows on trees, and every other disease is suddenly non-existent as soon as you start. I’m my own personal opinion, mega brutal should be what brutal is. Mega brutal is more like, “Sick people disappear off the face of the earth.” “Everybody lives in high tech state of the art homes that purify you as you wake up.” “Doctors not only sell their children for money to invest in the cure, but they were each single handily taught and trained by a wise monk in Nepal as children, Is able to complete a common knowledge test even though the sickness the currently have makes them insane literally, and have had their brain replaced by an A.I. alien technology that is yet to be discovered.” Oh yeah and everybody is a doctor regardless of what they actually wanted to do when they were kids. I will be doing just fine slowly infecting the population without any severity and then there is an “Anonymous blood test in one of the three countries I have infected. I face palm and shake my head knowing that those types of things can even happen. It’s fun altogether but mega brutal might as well be called impossible for certain plague types.

Oaks tree

Nov 2, 2017

Oaks tree

Think about it, what would happen in real life? I’m pretty sure everyone here in the real world isn’t perfect. But not in plague. Apparently every type of resource possible grows on trees, and every other disease is suddenly non-existent as soon as you start. I’m my own personal opinion, mega brutal should be what brutal is. Mega brutal is more like, “Sick people disappear off the face of the earth.” “Everybody lives in high tech state of the art homes that purify you as you wake up.” “Doctors not only sell their children for money to invest in the cure, but they were each single handily taught and trained by a wise monk in Nepal as children, Is able to complete a common knowledge test even though the sickness the currently have makes them insane literally, and have had their brain replaced by an A.I. alien technology that is yet to be discovered.” Oh yeah and everybody is a doctor regardless of what they actually wanted to do when they were kids. I will be doing just fine slowly infecting the population without any severity and then there is an “Anonymous blood test in one of the three countries I have infected. I face palm and shake my head knowing that those types of things can even happen. It’s fun altogether but mega brutal might as well be called impossible for certain plague types.